Parts of an Essay
Bluntly present your thesis sentence; ask a question; say something shocking, funny, or personal.
What is a good introduction?
I can see that (your / you're) worried
What is you're?
I don't have _____ things to do. How ______ time is left in the class?
(Much or many)
What is Many and Much?
Carolyn went to the city she starts her new job tomorrow
What is a run-on?
True or False
Introductions are all the same.
What is False?
Name the least important part of an essay.
What is a conclusion?
The football team won (its / it's) final game.
What is its?
Complete the sentence with {some} or {any}. There aren’t ______ tomatoes in the house.
Any
Sam went to the bank, he had to get money for his trip.
What is a comma splice?
_____ gives an essay a certain heft or significance.
What is Substance?
Avoid giving this type of information in your conclusion.
WHat is New information?
Vivian draws very (good / well)
What is well?
Use (lmany/ few/ a little)
We have ________ apples in the house. You don`t need to buy any more!
What is Many
It was the best I have seen in ages!
What is 'it'?
What is a weak sentence beginning?
How many voices should an essay have?
What is ONE? (unless using dialogue or quotations)
Grabbing the reader's attention, stating the essay's purpose, and making the reader want to read on
What is the Introduction's Purpose?
Hans and Jeremy went to Paris and stayed (there / their, they're) for two weeks.
there
I spend _______ my time reading novels.
few, most, any
What is most?
Sam went to the bank, but they left.
What is confusing pronoun?
_____ gives an essay a certain thoughtfulness or intelligence.
What is Substance?
Supporting all ideas from thesis to conclusion
What is the Body of an essay?
(After / Before) Angel (wake up/wakes up/woke up), she (have/Had/has) a dream.(3 errors)
What are
before,
wakes, and
has?
True or False
Water is a countable noun.
What is False?
While we were thinking.
What is a sentence fragment?
What are Beidler's three elements (sentence functions) of a healthy body paragraph?
topic sentence
developing sentences
transition sentence